Amalthée (mythology)
See also: Amalthée
Amalthée (in Greek old Ἀμάλθεια / Almáltheia ) is a dubious figure of the Greek Mythologie, associated with the childhood of Zeus.
Myth
Amalthée is a goat which nurses Zeus child, helped by Abeille S being given the responsability to nourish the god of Miel. According to Zénobe, Zeus then honors it while placing it like Constellation in the sky (see constellation of the Capricorn), or like simple star ( Capella , “the goat”, i.e. α of the Cocher). According to other traditions, with died of the goat, Zeus would have taken its skin to cover its the aegis with it: the Greek term αἰγίς / aigís indeed also means “goatskin”.
The goat is then rationalized in Nymphe. Thus, at Ovide ( Fastes , V), it is a Naïade, to which Zeus is still entrusted child by Rhéa, its mother, to escape the jealousy from Cronos. It takes care of the young god by nourishing it thanks to the milk of a goat; but this one breaking one day one from its two horn S, “Amalthée collected this broken horn, surrounded it by fresh grasses, fills it of fruits, and thus to the lips” (v. presented it; 124-125). Thus would have been born the Horn of plenty.
Interpretations
This myth is one of the first written testimonys of the suitable use of a breast feeding of substitution: certain women being discovered unable to nurse, for psychological or physiological reasons, used up to one recent time the goat's milk, which is one of the best natural substitutes to the milk of woman. Certain psychoanalytical approaches thus bring the maternal center to the horn of plenty and the aegis.
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